Drew and Leigh Hodgson with daughters Olivia, 8, left, and Anna, 5, in front of their Mount Kisco home. The Hodgsons want to sell their home to move into a larger one in the same school district.

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Ken and Kelly Trombley of Pearl River waited out the sluggish real estate market for several years, but last month, they told each other it was time to move out and up, so they put their split-level house on the market.

Drew and Leigh Hodgson have lived in their 1,300-square-foot home in Mount Kisco for two years and say they, too, are ready for a larger home to acommodate them and their two daughters, ages 8 and 5.

These families typify the re-emergence of a trend in local home buying that hasn't been around in a good long while - the move-up buyer, homeowners who are looking to sell one house and then ...